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    Environment And Energy Collaborative
    A lower-carbon natural gas flame burns on a stovetop at a NW Natural testing facility.
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    Natural Gas Companies Have Their Own Plans To Go Low-Carbon

    Feb 21, 2021
    The companies face an existential threat as more governments and businesses move to tackle climate change. So a growing number have their own plans to decarbonize, by creating renewable gas.
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    Fifth Street

    February 18, 2021

    Feb 18, 2021
    Taco the Town | 'Not an Oil and Gas State' | Media Sommelier
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    President Biden Takes Office
    A sign in the Jonah Field advertises cheap rates at a deserted motel built for oil and gas workers.
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    A Wyoming County Predicts 'Total Economic Devastation' From Biden Leasing Ban

    Jan 28, 2021
    Most of the oil and gas drilled in Wyoming comes from federal land and communities there are bracing for job losses and school funding cuts in the wake of a Biden administration pause on new leasing.
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    Latin America
    Motorists wait in line for hours to buy gasoline at a Pemex service station in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Sunday. The Mexican president temporarily closed some of the state oil company's pipelines, in a bid to wipe out rampant fuel theft.
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    Mexico's President Fights Gas Crisis, While Mexicans Endure Long Lines With Jokes

    Jan 15, 2019
    President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says his crackdown on stolen fuel is working, but long waits in several states persist, distribution bottlenecks continue and new acts of gas theft are reported.
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    World
    Steffen Ebert of Nord Stream 2 says that Europe's own gas reserves are running out and that all of Europe – not just Germany – stands to profit from the new pipeline.
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    In Germany, Construction Has Begun On Controversial New Russian Gas Pipeline

    Sep 10, 2018
    Construction began in May on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will enable Russia to boost its natural gas exports to Europe. President Trump has warned that it will make Germany "captive to Russia."
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    Protests Don't Stop Land Sale For Fracking

    Jul 22, 2014

    Almost 30 protesters gathered outside the Bureau of Land Management offices on Thursday to protest oil and gas lease sales that could lead to fracking....

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    Breaking Ground: Fracking Comes To Nevada

    Nov 05, 2013

    The controversial drilling method of hydraulic fracturing is coming to Nevada. The state issued the first permits for fracking early this year, and regulators are still working out a program to oversee the new operations

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    Congressman Mark Amodei tangles with the BLM

    Mar 19, 2012
    Northern Nevada Congressman Mark Amodei has a love-hate relationship going with the Bureau of Land Management right now. He has attacked its limits on oil and gas exploration to preserve the habitat of the sage grouse.
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    Clifford Gaddy on the Power of Russian Oil

    Apr 20, 2011
    Many people associate oil with the Middle East. But Russia is actually the world's largest producer of oil and gas.
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    Finance-Based Economy

    Jun 02, 2008
    Kevin Phillips, author, "Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism" ..
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    DC Matters

    Oct 13, 2005
    Senator Harry Reid [D-NV] ...Minority Leader of the Senate, on Harriet Miers and gas gouging.
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